Flight sim survey

[G-RFRY 1,712]

Results of the Navigraph survey.

 ttps://fselite.net/news/navigraphs-2019-community-survey-results-now-available/

[GlideBy 324]

Another problem with the H key?

I find their graphs weird.  How can you have 100% spend $0 on flight simulation software, but 95% spent $50, and 90% spent $100?  

[MatthewS 761]

38 minutes ago, GlideBy said:

I find their graphs weird.  How can you have 100% spend $0 on flight simulation software, but 95% spent $50, and 90% spent $100? 

ROTFL... Seriously calls into question the accuracy of all graphs in their report.  They need to check all graphs and reissue the report. 

[stephendoc 30]

42 minutes ago, GlideBy said:

Another problem with the H key?

I find their graphs weird.  How can you have 100% spend $0 on flight simulation software, but 95% spent $50, and 90% spent $100?  

It is explained in the report. It is a cumulative graph. It should be interpreted as 100% spend $0 or more per year. Approximately 90% spend $100 or more per year. 40% spend $350 or more, 20% $600 or more, etc.

 

 

Edited February 4, 2020 by stephendoc
Typo

[MatthewS 761]

5 minutes ago, stephendoc said:

It is explained in the report. It is a cumulative graph. It should be interpreted as 100% spend $0 or more per year. Approximately 90% spend $100 or more per year. 40% spend $350 or more, 20% $600 or more, etc.

Ah.. that makes sense.

[GlideBy 324]

10 minutes ago, stephendoc said:

It is explained in the report. It is a cumulative graph. It should be interpreted as 100% spend $0 or more per year. Approximately 90% spend $100 or more per year. 40% spend $350 or more, 20% $600 or more, etc

That seems backwards, and in some areas it is useless.  For example you can never know how many, or a percentage of, that spent $0, as it will always be 100%.  This would be really interesting as many mention putting off purchases as they wait for MSFS 2020.

And if you want to know how many spent around $100, how do you calculate that?  If you try to reverse it, say 100%-90%, that would say 10%.  But that is cumulative.  So at best we know 10% spent $100, $50, and $0. So now we have to do even more math... which can be done, just complicates it.

Seems much simpler if they just showed a individual percentage for each, then you can add them up if you wish.  Or put both numbers in, cumulative and individual.

[ual763 361]

1 hour ago, Rob_Ainscough said:

Was surprised to see only 56% interest for MFS ... but a nice increase in respondents up to 17,800 from 15,000 prior year and 61% of those are new respondents for this year. 

The $240/yr for add-ons is sadly depressing, thought it would have jumped given XP11 release and momentum ... perhaps that got clobbered by MFS PR machine with 45% holding off on purchases.

Gonna be interesting this year or next.

Cheers, Rob.

That surprised me too.  I feel like a lot of people are just being stubborn though to be stubborn, even in an anonymous survey.  Another way of looking at it is MSFS will have 56% of market share, whereas XP11 & P3D will each have respectively (assuming they are equal) 22% each.  

Edited February 5, 2020 by ual763

[HighTowers 1,434]

It could be more moving over. Under the same poll 'MSFS2020 Purchase Likelihood' is another 15% likely to purchase it in addition to the 56%.  Thats a fair chunk for something not even out yet.  

Most results are roughly the same as last year it seems.  I find it a little disappointing that only 0.7% are women considering that professional women pilots are on the rise and movements everywhere encouraging women in aviation.  

[tweekz 2,165]

4 hours ago, Rob_Ainscough said:

Was surprised to see only 56% interest for MFS ...

From the FSElite article:

56% of respondents will replace their current simulator with Microsoft Flight Simulator

Edited February 5, 2020 by tweekz

[aleex 551]

31 minutes ago, tweekz said:

From the FSElite article:

56% of respondents will replace their current simulator with Microsoft Flight Simulator

I’m sure that when the game is released that will rise to 80% or so. 

[tweekz 2,165]

44 minutes ago, aleex said:

I’m sure that when the game is released that will rise to 80% or so. 

Maybe not within the first months, but as time goes by, it should become the solid #1 civil flightsim.

If the flight model fails to convince, some people might stay with X-Plane in that regard.

[aleex 551]

44 minutes ago, tweekz said:

Maybe not within the first months, but as time goes by, it should become the solid #1 civil flightsim.

If the flight model fails to convince, some people might stay with X-Plane in that regard.

As far as I know, people are convinced with flight model. But We have to wait until bigger jets are included at some alpha/beta stage and see what people suggest. 
 

[Shack95 2,658]

1 hour ago, aleex said:

I’m sure that when the game is released that will rise to 80% or so. 

Even more important, how many will buy it? Around 90% + I‘d expect.

[Dominique_K 10,149]

7 hours ago, Rob_Ainscough said:

The $240/yr for add-ons is sadly depressing, thought it would have jumped given XP11 release and momentum ...

 

240 USD/year as a median budget seems to me pretty much what is to be expected. It is approximatively what buys an aircraft à la PMDG or two A2A/Milviz birds + 4/6 quality sceneries (price at sale events). Plenty to play for a year !

P3D is at the end of one of its cycle so many users have already purchased most of their aircraft and sceneries. XP11, I am not familiar with the market.

 

[pmb 5,137]

While the present survey doesn't contain much surprise compared to the previous one, I am convinced, the next one will present a completely different picture.

Kind regards, Michael